Re: Selectively localized images

[Ineiev]

On 12/28/2010 09:22 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> What I'm thinking about is automatic prepending of .LANG (if the file
> exists) without translator's intervention.

Another implementation.

(0) rewrite the link this way:

--- categories.html     20 Sep 2011 08:15:36 -0000      1.71
+++ categories.html     21 Oct 2011 08:18:44 -0000
@@ -17,5 +17,14 @@

 <p id="diagram" class="c">
-<img src="category.png" alt="" />
+<!--#set var="IMAGE_BASE" value="/philosophy/category" -->
+<!--#set var="IMAGE_EXT" value=".png" -->
+<!--#if expr="-A ${DOCUMENT_ROOT}${IMAGE_BASE}${LANGUAGE_SUFFIX}${IMAGE_EXT}" 
-->
+  <!--#set var="IMAGE_LANG" value="${LANGUAGE_SUFFIX}" -->
+<!--#else -->
+  <!--#set var="IMAGE_LANG" value="" -->
+<!--#endif -->
+<!--#set var="IMAGE_LINK"
+    value="<img src=\"${IMAGE_BASE}${IMAGE_LANG}${IMAGE_EXT}\" />" -->
+<!--#echo encoding="none" var="IMAGE_LINK" -->
 </p>

(1) add <!--#set var="LANGUAGE_SUFFIX" value=".xy" --> to every
/server/{html5-,}head-include-1.xy.html.

(2) write a section about it in translators' documentation
(there is no way to make webmasters learn about the process,
 the links have to be rewritten by translation coordinators).

Shortcomings and limitations:

(0) the <img> element won't be validated
(1) it should be at the beginning of the block
(2) it can't include translated attributes like "alt"

Advantages:

(0) It requires from the translator nothing
    but to commit a translated image
(1) It doesn't depend on GNUN cycles, and the localized image
    appears in the translated page immediately after committing.